This second volume of Strategies to support South African smallholders as a contribution to government’s second economy strategy contains sixteen case studies that comprise the main data for the analysis detailed in Volume ...

This article explores three articles from the perspective of 2011. They are Makhosazane Gcabashe and Alan Mabin’s ‘Preparing to negotiate
the land question’ (Transformation 11), Tom Bennett’s ‘Human rights and
the African ...

Within the ambit of the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative of South Africa, government is leading a process to define a Second Economy Strategy, and has identified the agricultural sector as a site of opportunity, ...

Okunlola, Adetola; Ngubane, Mnqobi; Cousins, Ben; du Toit, Andries(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape, 2016)

This report represents one of the outputs of a research and social dialogue project undertaken over 18 months. It explores a number of private sector partnerships and projects launched in support of black farmers – some ...

Cousins, Ben; Genis, Amelia; Clarke, Jeanette(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2018)

Extremely high levels of unemployment contribute to poverty and inequality, and are one of South Africa’s most intractable problems. Can the agricultural sector help to address the problem? And how can land reform be ...

Greenberg, Stephen(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2010)

Agriculture plays numerous roles in society. The
most obvious is to produce food (and, to a lesser
extent, fibre). While agriculture is the mainstay
of the rural economy, it also shapes social
relations and landscapes. ...

Lahiff, Edward; Davis, Nerhene; Manenzhe, Tshililo(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2012)

Recent years have witnessed renewed interest in ‘inclusive business models’ in
agriculture, as part of wider discussions about growing agricultural investment in
lower income countries. Inclusive models aim to include ...

The current debate on land reform in South Africa is unnecessarily polarised between those who believe that the market has failed to deliver, and those who believe that the bureaucracy has failed to deliver. Instead, we ...